Sentence Examples with the word lights

March 17, 2018All Dictionary

As he turned, the lights of a silent ambulance bounced across the long stretch of pasture between the highway and the mangled car.

In 1833 the Reformed Presbyterian Church divided into New Lights and Old Lights in a dispute as to the propriety of Covenanters exercising the rights of citizenship under the constitution of the United States.

The lights spread farther and farther, probably along the line of the French camp.

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He had given his realm good and strong governance; according to his lights he had striven to keep faith and to observe his coronation oath.

So, though in the clear air of day, suspended against a blue-veined neck, the pure-watered diamond drop will healthful glow; yet, when the cunning jeweller would show you the diamond in its most impressive lustre, he lays it against a gloomy ground, and then lights it up, not by the sun, but by some unnatural gases.

They glimmered faintly, like lights shrouded by fog.

Two obeyed and left the room filled with lights and computers.

Alms were often given even to non-gildsmen; lights were supported at certain altars; feasts and processions were held periodically; the funerals of brethren were attended; and masses for the dead were provided from the common purse or from special contributions made by the gildsmen.

The lights went out, and she blinked, looking up at the sound of whirring.

In the Eastern Church, to this day, there are no lights on the high altar; the lighted candles stand on a small altar beside it, and at various parts of the service are carried by the lectors or acolytes before the officiating priest or deacon.